Jill Kelley pleads with Tampa mayor for help with press

A distraught, panicked Jill Kelley sent a flurry of emails to the Tampa mayor this week pleading for police protection from the flock of media camped outside her mansion trying to catch a glimpse of the Florida socialite with a starring role in the David Petraeus sex scandal.

“My kids are scared and need their ‘home’ back,” Kelley wrote in one email to Mayor Bob Buckhorn, The Tampa Bay Times reported Friday.

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In another email, Kelley wrote that she, former CIA Director Petraeus and Gen. John R. Allen “have been exploited by the media.”

“I wouldn’t care — if they got the facts right and the focus was on the criminal that stalked all of us,” Kelley wrote, which The Tampa Bay Times reported was a reference to Petraeus’s mistress Paula Broadwell. “But the truth will one day prevail.”

According to reports, Kelley told the FBI she was receiving anonymous threatening emails, which were traced back to Broadwell. Petraeus — a retired four star general — resigned from the CIA on Nov. 9, citing the affair.

Kelley allegedly reported to the FBI a series of threatening emails she was receiving. They were, reportedly, traced back to Paula Broadwell, the ex-mistress of Ret. Gen. David Petraeus, who on Friday stepped down over his affair with Broadwell.

In the emails, Kelley complained to the mayor, “to put insult to injury, your police dept gave the local 911 tapes to the press!” In those 911 calls, Kelley claimed she had “inviolability” because she is an honorary consul general for South Korea.

“I’m scared and cannot believe what my city — in which I have contributed so much of my love, time, money and leadership, has now done to me and my innocent family,” she wrote to the mayor.

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Jill Kelley started this entire fiasco and now is criticizing the "unintended consequences" which she precipitated. She'll have to live with her decision to get the FBI involved and consequently the entire nation involved in her petty drama.

It appears Ms. Kelley's issues stemmed from her overestimated importance of her position. Titles mean nothing. " Honorary" does not provide authority to anyone. It's a gratutous title which she took to the extreme.

The uninteded consequences of her actions now relegates her to being a media target; denegrates her to being an ordinary citizen with no ties hereafter to the military power s that be she once used to her own advantage and diminishes her social standing in her community. Her "inviolability" notwithstanding, the girl has dug her own hole and no one, from here on in, will touch her with a 10 foot pole! If she was the center of power at one time for many military executives, the fact that she exercised poor judgment by exposing herself and others to an investigation that could hurt her contacts; well I don't see her confidential status looking too credible. The supposed "threat" was not really a threat; more a caution. She just thought that her contacts would give her the protection she arrogantly believed she was entitled to call in as a favor.

Now she wants the Mayor of Tampa to take action against the media's First Amendment rights. Who does she think she is anyway. If I were the Mayor, I would check all my emails and press the delete button on any from this so-called socialite.

I'd have more sympathy for her if she hadn't been asking the Koreans for 2% of any deal she brokered as 'honorary consul general', and she wasn't parading around with diplomatic license plates on her car.